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Africa Proconsularis (125 AD)
The Diocese of Bennefa (Latin: Rite Bennefensis ) is a home suppressed and
titular see of the
Roman Catholic Church .
Bennefa, identifiable with
Oglet-Khefifa in modern Tunisia,
[1] is an ancient
civitas of the
Roman province of
Byzacena .
[2] and a seat of an ancient Christian
episcopal see .
[3] The diocese was mentioned by
Augustine of Hippo .
[4]
There are four known bishops of this
diocese .
Guntasio Cabarsussi participated in the council, held in 393 by
Maximianus , a dissident sect of the
Donatists , and they signed the acts of the conference.
[5]
At the
Council of Carthage in 411 , Catholic Bishop Emiliano represented the city. The Donatist cause was not represented due to the death of the bishop Maximian on the eve of the conference.
[6]
Among the Catholic bishops
summoned to Carthage in 484 by the
Vandal king
Huneric was Ortolano,
[7] who then was exiled, as recalled by the Roman
martyrology on the date of 28 November.
Today Bennefa survives as
titular bishopric
[8] and the current bishop is
Héctor Mario Pérez Villarreal , of
Monterrey .
[9]
References
^
Titular Episcopal See of Bennefa at GCatholic.org.
^ Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae , (Leipzig, 1931), p. 464
^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli, Africa christiana , Volume I (Brescia, 1816), pp. 100–101.
^
Bennefa sul sito dell'Associazione storico-culturale di Sant'Agostino .
^ Patrologia Latina , XXXVI, coll. 376 e 381.
^ Patrologia Latina , XI, coll. 1304 e 1337.
^ Patrologia Latina , t. LVIII, coll. 271 e 315.
^ Auguste Audollent, v. Benefensis in Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques , vol. VII, 1934, col. 1237
^ David Cheney,
Diocesi di Bennefa , su Catholic-Hierarchy.org